He's just not that into you.....

I know you think he was great during the courtship phase of your relationship. He said all the right things, told funny jokes, paid attention to your family and friends and always seemed deeply concerned about your feelings. Then when he won your heart the phone calls stopped coming. The goodies you were promised never did arrive. He seemed aloof and distant. He certainly didn't care about your feelings the way he used.

We all have the same reaction when a relationship is going badly. First we question if it was ever real in the first place. Then we wonder what we did to sabotage or destroy it. Then we get angry. And I mean really pissed off. Because we feel lied to and cheated on. We know the attention and love we used to get is going to someone else. The fact of the matter is that he really was never that into.

Not your boyfriend or girlfriend, your elected representatives. And not just in Wisconsin and Indiana where they are playing hide and seek with their own jobs. But all over this great nation the liberals, who will soon be faced with voting for you the American people, or the people who scrape the dues from the paychecks of hard working civil servants, only to donate to corrupt politicians who vote for bigger pay packages that eventually bankrupt you and the country. And they will not choose you. They really weren't that into you to begin with.

For those independents and moderates you can add the President to the list. He sounded good two and a half years ago and then he changed. You said you didn't want health care or more government spending. He didn't care. He still doesn't. All you were was the equivalent of a late night booty call by someone who forgot your name by the morning. Don't be too sad. We've all been used at one time or another. It just hurts more when you have to see them everyday.

So grab a pint of ice cream and a box of tissues. The hurt will go away right around November 2012. Till then just try not too take it personal. They just were never really into us.



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Shinedown had it right. What a shame......

Charlie Sheen is not drawing a lot of sympathy right now. He is really going to need it later on. That is if he decides to give being sober a shot. If he doesn't he has two options remaining, insanity or early death. You can write it down and remind me later. It is one of the three.

The lyrics from the song say, "What a shame what a shame to judge a life that you can't change." And it's 100% correct. Only Charlie has a chance to change. But the people who say that he is a spoiled brat with no willpower really don't understand how sick he is. Drunks don't lack willpower. I am one so I should know. How many people who say that could drink all night and then mix a screwdriver the first thing in the morning and drink it through a straw because their hands are shaking too much to hold it? Not a damn one of them. Is that a lack of willpower? No. A lack of judgement for sure, but that takes some stones.

What Charlie hasn't figured out yet is the group with the initials he ranted about has saved millions of people just like him. Just because he is on a yacht and someone else is under a bridge is just a matter of location. They will both end up in the same place if they don't get help. With all the people willing to suck up to Charlie and cover for him it might take longer. It might not. If anyone is old enough to remember Jim Morrison or John Belushi they know.

I am not suggesting that he be held up as some type of martyr either. He will have to answer for his own actions one day. I actually saw some people say they "liked" him. I wonder if that was when he was choking the mother of his children. Or when he beat up the hooker and locked her in a closet? How do you like someone who does that? Or when all his co-workers lost their jobs because he couldn't do his? There sure is a lot to "like" about a man like that.

Judging him is not my intent. Some of the stunts I pulled when I was drinking are still a source of anguish to me twenty five years later. I've tried to make amends where possible but you still never forget what you were like. And it serves as a damn good reminder of why you never want to go back. So hard as it may be, if you're Christian, say a prayer for Charlie. If not hope he gets some help. Because without he adds to the list of promising young people who never did figure out that one day at a time thing really does work. If you work it.



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Go ahead......We can take it.

Interesting how the weasels in Congress have so much faith in us before the elections and so little afterward. Everyone except the very far left will admit that our country is broke. And with interest, getting broker by the minute. Yet here comes our budget from the White House this week and surprise, surprise, we are going to spend more money than we have and taxes are going up. Despite the words coming out of the President's mouth the numbers don't lie.
So here's the big question, why don't they think we can handle the truth? Is it focus groups that tell them that Americans will never stand to reform Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security? Is it the demonstrations in Wisconsin because the Governor wants to actually, gasp, require teachers to pay for 12% of the health care they get? Or is it the polls that show 62% of Americans favor cutting entitlements just not theirs? Could be anyone of the above. Except the problem is all of them are wrong. We can take tightening our belt to help fix the mess we're in.
What rational thinking American, who didn't already depend on Social Security, would not want to hear some sort of common sense solutions to the financial problems we face? We all know that what we have is going to crumble. The exact timing of the meltdown seems to vary between which party is in power and which party needs the senior vote more. All we keep hearing is that these are the third rail of politics. I think the Tea Party candidates that were elected proved that the country can take the truth. As a matter of fact, we really want to hear it.
You can defense spending to the list. Most of conservatives will admit as well that our defense budget has to be cut. And maybe we can even talk about the fraud and corruption. On September 10, 2001 Don Rumsfeld said the pentagon was missing 250 million dollars. Missing. And he said that was just the start of his findings. Then the next day happened and all was forgotten. All of these need to be cut and or changed to make sure they will exist at all in the future. So why won't a politician from any party start talking about it earnestly?
The answer is a simple one. Fear. They want to keep the power they have. And they know whoever speaks first on these issues will be vilified by the other party and the press and who knows who else. But things have changed. They are wrong about what the people will do. The people would re-elect any politician who would honestly try to cut spending and balance our budget. Without it we are doomed. We have 14 trillion dollars we owe and were just told we need to spend more on new energy and a high speed train. Are you kidding me? How stupid do they think we are? We have to pay bills. We don't buy new train sets for the kids in we can't pay the rent. Our Treasury Secretary told Congress the budget he submitted was unsustainable. Then why submit it? Go back and fix it like you did your tax returns.
So come on Washington, we're all adults here. Talk to us and somebody starting leading. We will follow if you show us how. You were elected to lead so quit whining and do your job. We can take it.

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